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Melissa Walker is not just a fiendishly talented author, kindhearted fashion maven, and brand-new mom who knows how to strap her pretty baby on. She's the creator of (among countless other things) a regular feature series called "Cover Stories."
I have been so grateful to those of you who have written to me about YOU ARE MY ONLY. You do this author's heart a whole lot of good.
It occurred to me that it might be helpful to answer some questions in a broader format, and so I have prepared this new permanent page for the blog, featuring a Q and A, a list of upcoming appearances, a glimpse of an early review, and contact information.
Every time I post this cover image I sigh, happily. This evening I am sighing doubly happily, for I have read what is in fact the first review of Dangerous Neighbors, a five-star VOYA review, and it touches my heart deeply. For now I share these words, which do such an outstanding job of capturing a story that, in my five years of working on it, I struggled to adequately sum up.
Originally I was just going to tell you exactly what the author, Beth Kephart, tells you about Dangerous Neighbors: “It is 1876, the height of the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Katherine has lost her twin sister, Anna, and though it was an accident, Katherine remains convinced that Anna’s death was her fault. One wickedly hot September day, Katherine sets out for the exhibition grounds to cut short the life she is no longer willing to live. This is the story of what happens.” But that would leave out a lot because Dangerous Neighbors is about more than feeling the loss of a sister. It is about sisters, especially twin sisters, and how they are a part of each other. It is about the inevitable maturing and ultimate growing apart of siblings. It is about the world in 1876 and one parent’s fight for equality. It is about having someone to care for and how that spark of caring can change everything.
Thank you so much, reviewer Ed Goldberg.
12 Comments on Dangerous Neighbors: the first review, last added: 4/27/2010
I am now worried to read this as I am sure it will make me feel terrible about my thesis stories, which are all about twin sisters. But at the same time, I'm still looking forward to it because you are a wonderful writer.
I was on the phone with a client. I was working. I was on the computer and the phone with a client. I was working. I noticed that there was sun outside, but I noticed nothing else, and so the UPS man surprised me today. He doesn't often, but today he did. Only now, opening the front door to gauge the weather do I discover this:
Dangerous Neighbors has arrived, in immaculate Advanced Reading Copy form.
Have I mentioned how much I love this Neil Swaab cover? And you should see the interior pages. The packaging like an object lesson in book art.
Thank you, Egmont USA!
20 Comments on Dangerous Neighbors ARCs arrive, last added: 2/22/2010
I am looking forward to reading this. I would want to read it even if the cover were wretched (which I'm glad it's not), but it does help that it looks so inviting.
To say that I am honored by this profoundly (to me, and I hope to you) gorgeous cover for Dangerous Neighbors would be a supreme understatement. Laura Geringer, who bought this book for Egmont USA and edited it with a whole, sustaining heart, invited art director Neil Swaab to develop themes and possibilities. Within a few days this fabulously talented artist had created a half dozen jackets of such extraordinary quality that I longed to hang them here on my office walls. The very good people of Egmont USA chose this as the final and now officially approved jacket art.
I couldn't wait to share it with you.
Nor could I wait to share this description of the book, which was written not by me but by someone else who read with great care the novel I'd worked on for five years. It's startling, as I mentioned a few days ago, to see your work through another's eyes. It teaches you.
Could any two sisters be more tightly bound together than the twins, Katherine and Anna? Yet love and fate intervene to tear them apart. Katherine's guilt and sense of betrayal leaves her longing for death, until a surprise encounter and another near catastrophe rescue her from a tragic end. Set against the magical kaleidoscope of the Philadelphia Centennial fair of 1876, National Book Award nominee Beth Kephart conjures the sweep and scope of a moment in history in which the glowing future of a nation is on display to the disillusioned gaze of a girl who has determined that she no longer has a future. The tale is a pulse by pulse portrait of a young heroine's crisis of faith and salvation in the face of unbearable loss.
28 Comments on Dangerous Neighbors: The Cover Reveal, last added: 1/18/2010
That cover is gorgeous! And, I love that it has 'National Book Award Nominee' written across the top! I'm thrilled for you! And, the description makes me want to scoop it up pronto!!! Congrats. I can't wait to someday experience the joy of seeing the cover of a book I've written. What a thrill!!!
It is absolutely beautiful. I'm so happy for you and I can't wait to have a copy in hand, a steaming mug of tea by my side, and a long lonely day to read...
By: Beth Kephart ,
on 9/26/2011
Oh my gosh.
To say that I am honored by this profoundly (to me, and I hope to you) gorgeous cover for Dangerous Neighbors would be a supreme understatement. Laura Geringer, who bought this book for Egmont USA and edited it with a whole, sustaining heart, invited art director Neil Swaab to develop themes and possibilities. Within a few days this fabulously talented artist had created a half dozen jackets of such extraordinary quality that I longed to hang them here on my office walls. The very good people of Egmont USA chose this as the final and now officially approved jacket art.
Going there right now... :)
fun -- I'll take a look.
I'll have to take a look
Thanks for sharing it, Beth! So glad you got another great cover. x